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Repeating yourself doesn't make it sound any less ignorant. You are not a good parent in 2018 if you're intentionally getting your kid sick with chickenpox inst
by cmurf 8y ago
Repeating yourself doesn't make it sound any less ignorant. You are not a good parent in 2018 if you're intentionally getting your kid sick with chickenpox instead of getting them vaccinated instead.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html
It is an ACIP recommended vaccine for at least a decade, which means all state Mediciad recipients can get it for free or for a low cost co-pay. There is no good reason why any child is getting chickenpox today.
- bane 8y agoRight, it's only been on the childhood vaccine schedule for 10 years. Most people don't know that nor that there's even a vaccine available for it. Chickenpox is such a mild childhood event that it's widely just assumed that your children just need to get infected with it and a week later they have lifetime immunity. Something like 95% of all adults today had Chickenpox as a child and most people have probably forgotten the event. 10 years for a vaccine against a generally mild week long childhood rash is not really enough time or importance to enter the general public consciousness and it's not really a sin to get your kids infected with it. You're judging billions of people with your own ignorance of their lives.
- ryanmercer 8y ago>Right, it's only been on the childhood vaccine schedule for 10 years. Most people don't know that nor that there's even a vaccine available for it. Indeed, this thread is how I learned there is a vaccine for it.